>(But where should the setting be saved? "~/.profile" or a config file
like "startkderc"? The latter may require modifying
If a problem is hard to solve, change the problem.
It's an environment variable because that was a good tool for the
problem it was solving at the time. But there's no reason
This isn't a bad idea. I've been somewhat frustrated with the situation
on X11 for a few years.
Given that the only true blocker for using Qt scaling is the fact that
it breaks mixed-DPI multimonitor quite badly, I think you are right that
we could express this trade-off in the UI, and let the
Currently, Plasma on X11 disables `PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING` by default to
avoid some more serious bugs (and many of them have been fixed [1]).
Bug 356446 [2] was marked "RESOLVED INTENTIONAL" because "it breaks
mixed-DPI screen arrangements" and there seems no way to overcome the
defect because